Friday, February 27, 2015

Review: Arrow Season 1

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Green Arrow is definitely one of the second tier heroes in the DC universe. This is both a good thing and a bad thing when you build a TV sh...
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Review: Console Wars

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Console Wars is Blake Harris' account of the rise and fall of Sega of America during the 1990s. Despite the title, it focuses almost ex...
Tuesday, February 24, 2015

First Impression: Co-Motion Periscope Quad Convertible (Triplet configuration)

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Bowen turned 3 last year, but despite our coaxing, he still hasn't shown much interest in his Strider bike. But more than that, eve...
Monday, February 23, 2015

Review: The Pillars of the Earth

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The Pillars of the Earth is Ken Follett's historical novel about the building of a Cathedral in Kingsbridge, England in the 1100s. It...
Friday, February 20, 2015

My Color Rant

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Like 8% of men , I'm color blind. In normal day to day life, this isn't much of a disability. For instance, traffic lights are desig...
Thursday, February 19, 2015

Returning to the Xperia Z1

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I broke my Xperia Z1 in mid December, and shipped it back to Sony for a warranty repair. Not knowing if I was going to ever get it back (So...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Review: The Fifth Discipline

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The Fifth Discipline is Peter Senge's management book about building learning organizations. I first read it in the 1990s, and recently...
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Review: The Walking Dead Compendium #2

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The Walking Dead Compendium #2 is follows straight on from the first volume , which already put Rick Grimes, the protagonist through hell a...
Monday, February 16, 2015

Swimming Music, Round 2

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After a year and a half, my Pyle swimming headphones had a mechanical breakage which made them unusable for my swimming workouts. Long befo...
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Friday, February 13, 2015

Review: The Walking Dead Compendium 1

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I'm a sucker for deals, so even though I'm not a fan of zombies, The Walking Dead Compendium 1 & 2 were on sale on Google Play ...
Thursday, February 12, 2015

Review: The Marshmallow Test

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By now, you've heard of the Marshmallow Test . If you haven't, go visit YouTube and search for the many videos filmed of the test. T...
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Interviewing and Performance

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Recently, someone asked me a deep question: we all know (and Google has the data ) that interviews do a poor job of predicting on-the-job pe...
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Review: Windows Server Essentials 2012 R2

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My Windows Home Server (original) has been running very nicely since it was first installed in 2011. The nightly backup feature has saved m...
Monday, February 09, 2015

Review: Outlook 2013

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As documented previously, I've recently run into quota issues for gmail . Along with the need to aggressively delete e-mail to get under...
Sunday, February 08, 2015

Review: Indexing

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Indexing is Seanan McGuire's novel about fairy tales gone amuck. It was originally sold as a serial and the structure of the novel refl...
Friday, February 06, 2015

Review: Zero to One

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Zero to One is Peter Thiel's short book on how to build startups. It's a very mixed bag, but has a few interesting and important id...
Saturday, January 31, 2015

Review: Defense Grid 2 (PS4)

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I'm a big fan of tower defense games, but many of the current mobile games (such as FieldRunners) leave me cold: the production values a...
Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Review: The Golem and the Jinni

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The Golem and the Jinni is Helene Wecker's debut novel. Set in turn of the century New York City, it blends together Arabic and Yiddish...
Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Review: Little Big Planet PS Vita

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The Playstation Vita is easily Sony's least loved gaming platform. It's weaker than the PS3 or PS4 graphically, but despite that ...
Monday, January 26, 2015

Review: How to Fail At Almost Everything and Still Win Big

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Authors are strange and irrational creatures. Ask any author with multiple books out which book they wrote they like the most, and they almo...